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TECHNOLOGY a free wiki
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Dear fellow turkey,
Want to set up a Wiki, but don’t know where to begin? Check out Schtuff, a free wiki service that lets you set up your own collaborative website in just a few steps. Sign up for a free account, define your domain and add your “spaces”, the pages that make up your site’s contents. It’s easy-to-use but if you’ve never used a wiki before and you just want to explore, make sure to read through their copious help documents.
Hat tip to http://www.lifehacker.com/software/wiki/schtuff-free-wiki-127468.php
And if you have no idea what a wiki can be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Why you should care?
Free. Casually dropping it in chit chat with hunter, hr, or interviewer makes you look “hipper”, more with it, techie, and thirty punds lighter. Ok I made the last one up. It enables you to assert a value proposition that you might not normally be able to.
YOU SAY:
“I know everything on the net isn’t gold but when I was playing with schtuff, a free wiki, I was able to find a use for my Church to cost effectively produce announcements and have people volunteer for assignments. OK it is not the biggest deal but for a financially strapped organization, it fit the bill. I can remember many times when something like that would have been a cost-effective solution to an immediate problem.”
Now I’m not saying you should LIE. And no one cares if you have seen the inside of a Church since your favorite Aunt died. And no one cares if this wiki thing does anything like you say it did. You sound techie. Certainly more techie than most HR types. And you have told them that you know resources cost money and you’re basically cheap. And, you’ve learned from your past.
And maybe you don’t need to lose 30# like I do. But, take a look at new stuff instead of playing solitaire on your computer when you are down. You are telling anyone who’ll listen how creative you are! So create something.
It doesn’t matter what specifically you do. What matters is you can use it to advance your value proposition.
Reinke Faces Life 